100 WOMEN WE LOVE 2008
Lily Tomlin’s extraordinary career as a funny lady bloomed on the TV show Laugh-In in 1969, the year of the Stonewall rebellion. Fittingly, she has woven feminism and LGBT life into her characters—the not-so-hardworking phone operator Ernestine, Violet Newstead in 9 to 5 and the numerous personas populating The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the one-woman play written by Tomlin’s partner Jane Wagner, for which Tomlin won a Tony Award. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as Linnea Reese in Robert Altman’s Nashville, played recurring roles on TV shows from Murphy Brown to The West Wing, and has won six Emmys, a Grammy, and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1977. Tomlin, who has called Wagner the most influential person in her life and career, narrated 1995’s landmark LGBT documentary The Celluloid Closet. –KL
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Hats off to the 100 Women We Love, class of 2008 (in no particular order, ’cause we love ’em all!).
Elizabeth MacDonald
On-air Fox Business News reporter Elizabeth MacDonald has covered stock market and accounting derring-do for various print and broadcast outlets throughout her career. In the late ‘90s, during her previous tenure at the Wall Street Journal, she broke the story of the decade’s infamous accounting scandals, including secret tax-break deals between the IRS and the Church of Scientology. She then became a senior editor at Forbes Magazine, where she continued her groundbreaking investigations and created the annual World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list. In addition to her work at Fox, MacDonald appears as an expert on other networks’ nightly news broadcasts. “If we the journalists don’t uncover corruption,” she says, “then
the good guys lose and the bad guys win.” –KL
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